# World-o-Meters **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 3, 2010, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889 "2010-02-03T06:26:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889/1 "2010-02-03T06:26:09Z")
Found this the other day and thought it was pretty cool. > **[Worldometers - real time world statistics](http://www.worldometers.info/)** > > Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health. Well, for everyone but that motorcycle guy with the weak stomach over deaths of people he’s never met. Watching the “Deaths Today” count might be rough for him. ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889/2 "2010-02-03T06:36:06Z")
wow i lol’d at worldwide spending on illegal drugs. ---
**Author:** ![38stang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/38stang/32/7479_2.png) [@38stang](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/38stang)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889/3 "2010-02-03T06:39:41Z")
Cool site ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889/4 "2010-02-03T06:42:55Z")
Something to think about when looking at any of the “this year” totals. It’s only February 3rd and all those numbers were 0 on 1/1. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889/5 "2010-02-03T06:44:20Z")
Hrm. I thought there were 195 counties… The wikipedia tells me that the UN recognizes 192, plus there’s Vatican City, plus a handful that aren’t universally recognized as soverign like Kosovo, Somoliland, and Taiwan… ---
**Author:** ![KuntryQuestTSi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kuntryquesttsi/32/5010_2.png) [@KuntryQuestTSi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KuntryQuestTSi)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889/6 "2010-02-03T06:47:07Z")
Deaths needs to catch up to births ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 6:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889/7 "2010-02-03T06:48:21Z")
> [@KuntryQuestTSi](#): > > Deaths needs to catch up to births lol ---
**Author:** ![TMAN1985](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tman1985/32/5408_2.png) [@TMAN1985](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TMAN1985)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889/8 "2010-02-03T06:50:19Z")
NSFW! MY STOMACH HURTS NOW!:iobarf: ---
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889/9 "2010-02-03T06:51:41Z")
12,686 Species that have gone extinct this year? Which ones? ---
**Author:** ![TMAN1985](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tman1985/32/5408_2.png) [@TMAN1985](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TMAN1985)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889/10 "2010-02-03T06:52:09Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > Hrm. I thought there were 195 counties… > > The wikipedia tells me that the UN recognizes 192, plus there’s Vatican City, plus a handful that aren’t universally recognized as soverign like Kosovo, Somoliland, and Taiwan… soverign = sovereign. ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889/11 "2010-02-03T07:10:27Z")
> [@TMAN1985](#): > > soverign = sovereign. fry it looks like you have a new sack rider! ---
**Author:** ![JMEZZI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@JMEZZI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JMEZZI)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/world-o-meters/78889/12 "2010-02-03T13:18:25Z")
15k days till the end of oil…Glad I’ll be 65 and retired by then to give a shit about driving anywhere.